dairy

1. verb, raise cows for milk production; 2. also ‘dairying’, noun

1.
“There must have been a switch-over time when you went from dairy to beef.”
“Well, I never really dairied myself.”

2.
“I milked cows for close to fifty years. And we quit here about three or four years ago, quit dairying, and it was a good way to make a living.”